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Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Italy in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Software startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Software companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Italy in January 2025

Investor	Software Italy investments
Luca Ascani	6
Paolo Barberis	5
Matteo de Brabant	4
Raffaele Terrone	3
Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano	3
Francesco Beraldi	3
Fabio Cannavale	3
Max Ciociola	3
Federico González Tejera	3
Diego Piacentini	3
David Clarke	3
Marco Porcaro	2
GianFilippo Cuneo	2
Giuseppe Donagemma	2
Roberto Magnifico	2
Valerio Fonseca	2
Joe Zadeh	2
Giordano Martinelli	2
Francesco Starace	2
Riccardo Schiavotto	2
Andrea Dusi	2
Nico Rosberg	2
Marco Di Pietro	2
Maurizio Donadelli	2
Matthew Lunelli	2
Pietro Invernizzi	2
Family, Friends & Angels	2
Duccio Vitali	2
Francesco Zaccariello	2
Giorgio Chiellini	2
Marco Filippi	1
Attilio Mazzilli	1
Hugo Valdivia	1
Gianni Tagliapietra	1
Enrico Drago	1
Fabio Tomassini	1
Orange Palestre Torino	1
Vincenzo Colarocco	1
Giorgio Tinacci	1
Massimiliano Magrini	1
Gianmario Tondato Da Ruos	1
Ron Pragides	1
Mark Iuliano	1
Stiven Muccioli	1
Marco Corradino	1
Angelo Moratti	1
Andrea Di Camillo	1
Luca Foresti	1
MIRIAM TENCA	1
Pietro Cesati	1

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Luca is founder and CEO of Lambda Alpha, an investment company focused on early stage investment. Its portfolio includes Bear, the Apple Design Award winner notes app, Fintechs as Lendable and Emma App in London, Mansa in Paris and ScalaPay as well as autonomous robots Gideon Brothers and automated pasta restaurant Cala. Recent investmentsincludes Dishpatch, Airbank and RVVUP. Luca started his entrepreneurial career aged 20 when he launched BuyCentral.it, the first Italian shopping comparison site, in 2000. It was sold to Lycos in 2004. In 2002 he founded ADVance which became the leading digital agency in Italy, subsequently sold to NetBooster. In 2004 he cofounded GoAdv, later rebranded Populis, one of the largest vertical digital publishing groups in Europe and Brazil, listed on the Paris Alternext stock exchange. In 2011 Populis was named the fastest growing company in Ireland and part of the top ten in Europe by Deloitte. In 2012 and 2013 he has brought the TechCrunch conference to Italy with the aim of connecting the Italian industry with international investors. For this same purpose he was co-hosting the 2017 Founders Forum in Rome.From 2010 Luca was in the board of IlSecoloXIX, an Italian north west leading newspaper, then acquired by LaStampa in 2014 and he was in the board of the new group, ITEDI, until it was acquired by Gruppo Espresso in 2017.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fence — Fence is a SaaS platform to automate debt facility operations like reporting and payments between lenders and borrowers.
Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.

Paolo Barberis is the Founder at Nana Bianca.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
Musixmatch — Musixmatch is the leading Music Data company aggregating rights for the world's largest catalog of lyrics. The company uses the power of lyrics to build unique dataset and machine learning algorithms based on NLP to empower music reccomandations, search, discovery . On top of this Musixmatch administrates more than 10,000 Music publishers andover 150 mln $ copyrights . Musixmatch has ensured worldwide agreement with top Music Publishers as Universal Publishing, Emi Publishing, Sony ATV, BMG, Warner Chappel, Kobalt Publishing, and +4000 trough Harry Fox Agency. Current clients list includes Apple Music, Google, Shazam, Amazon Music, Spotify, Facebook, VEVO, Saavn, MTV, etc
EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.

Matteo de Brabant is Founder and Chairman at Jakala Group. He is the CEO of the company since 2000.

Investment focus

News, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Italy, France

Portfolio highlights

faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources

Raffaele Terrone currently works as Chief Financial Officer at Scalapay. He previously worked at ICAMAP as an Investment Director.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, Germany, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Xaver — Xaver enables Financial Institutions to close Europe’s pension gap. By offering an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for life insurance and private pension sales, Xaver enhances the operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65% and introduces a new era of white-labeled private pension products.With a leadership teamof experienced industry veterans - Max Bachem, Ole Breulmann, and Dr. Björn Holste - and backing from leading VC funds and a prominent group of former financial institution executives, fintech pioneers, and unicorn founders, Xaver is dedicated to improving the pension situation of Europeans through their B2B offering.
qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
SAPI — SAPI builds credit products for payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.

Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano

Investment focus

EdTech, FinTech, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.

Francesco Beraldi

Investment focus

Machine Learning, SaaS, EdTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.
AzzurroDigitale — AzzurroDigitale accompagna le aziende manifatturiere in un percorso di digital transformation per migliorare e velocizzare i processi grazie alla tecnologia

Fabio Cannavale - Founder @ Siamosoci

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Properly — Properly is a visual checklist tool that lets property owners share turnover instructions with cleaning pros effortlessly.Properly's mission is to have hosts and property managers get the same streamlined results during every guest turnover cleaning, and for professional cleaners to understand their clients' expectations and getrecognized for stellar work.
Contents — Revolutionizing AI content generation for enterprises, providing personalized, scalable solutions for e-commerce, publishers, and agencies, with seamless IT integration and brand consistency.
EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.

Product-focused, balance-sheet driven entrepreneur with a 20+ year track record in pioneering, launching and growing profitable businesses in the mobile and media space with broad experience in product, business, and content development for the digital space. Max is founder and CEO of Musixmatch, the World's Largest Lyrics Catalog and MusicAI Company with +70 Mln of users in the world. Musixmatch uses Deep Learning and AI techniques to provide lyrics and language data to most of music digital streaming companies. As first mover in the mobile space Max started in early 1998 with Wireless Solutions, a multi media mobile gateway platform for delivering contents in more than 100 countries over 300 mobile carriers. He then sold his company to Dada, an italian media company, and he spent 7 years with Dada first as CEO Dada Iberia & Latam e then as EVP Mobile Services, leading a team of +100 people and +80 mln yearly turnover. Max is the co founder of AI Labs, an R&D AI Lab in Italy active on Technology Transfer on AI.

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Consumer
Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
Young Platform — Il crypto exchange italiano dove puoi acquistare e vendere Bitcoin e le migliori altcoin del mercato. Accumula criptovalute e costruisci il tuo futuro finanziario giorno dopo giorno.

Federico González is the Founder at Radisson Hotel Group.

Investment focus

Travel, Software, Travel Agency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

BizAway — Discover a streamlined approach to business travel with BizAway. Our intuitive platform offers a one-click solution to book and manage your trips, saving your company time and money. Over 1500 companies trust us with their travel management needs. Request a demo today!

Diego Piacentini has served as Senior Vice President, International Consumer Business, since February 2012. From January 2007 until February 2012, Diego Piacentini served as Senior Vice President, International Retail, from November 2001 until December 2006, he served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Retail and Marketing and, from February 2000until November 2001, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, International. Prior to joining Amazon.com, Piacentini was Vice President and General Manager of Apple Computer Europe, where he headed operations for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Piacentini joined Apple Computer in 1987. He held several financial management positions both in Apple Italy and at a European level through 1993. Piacentini served as Sales Director for Apple Italy in 1994 and was promoted to the post of General Manager for Apple Italy in May 1995.Piacentini holds a degree in economics from Bocconi University of Milan. An Italian national, he has traveled and worked across Europe, Asia and North America.n Senior Vice President of International Consumer at Amazon.com Inc. since February 2012.

Investment focus

Human Resources, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Italy, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Ephos — Designing and manufacturing glass-based integrated photonic circuits that power the most advanced classical and quantum devices
IDOVEN — IDoven develops products to detect heart problems at an early stage to prevent heart diseases.
Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).

David Clarke is the Venture Partner at Frontline Ventures. He attended Trinity College Dublin during 1989-1993.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, Denmark, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Glaut — Glaut is an AI-native customer survey platform that conducts in-depth, AI-moderated interviews with customers at scale.
Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
Kota — Instant access to leading insurance and retirement providers globally, with flexible contributions, automated accounting and a delightfully simple employee app.

Marco Porcaro - CEO & Founder @ Cortilia

Investment focus

Mobile, E-Commerce, Advertising
Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

TextYess — Increase your eCommerce Retention with a Frictionless Experience.

GianFilippo Cuneo

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Marketing
Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

THRON — Siamo THRON. Quelli della piattaforma unica per governare insieme asset digitali e dati di prodotto, distribuendoli su tutti i tuoi canali di comunicazione.

Giuseppe (Beppe) is a global executive, who has had leading positions during last 20 years of both large corporate organizations (>10.000 people) and entrepreneurial companies.Beppe has been successful in his career thanks to his flexible mindset and hands-on behavior, in addition to excellent relationships’ building capabilities.Hisexperience entails from management of B2B business around the world to responsibility of project management of networks’ operations, from P/L management of 4 billion euros region to fund raising in Asia for a start-up company, from achieving successful change management and revenue growth turnarounds in big corporates to ensuring strategic partnerships for new emerging ventures, from developing the strategy and vision for a new business unit to opening new markets for an expanding company.Beppe always builds high performing and diverse teams to work with, leading them with high energy, confidence and ambiguity tolerance. He’s an attentive listener and an effective (public) speaker. He has a pragmatic and participative leadership style, and an excellent Board presence attitude.Beppe holds an engineering degree, a master (non-degree) in Strategy & Leadership. He is Fellow at Elis, a post-graduation faculty in Rome. He is an enthusiast sportsman, married with two daughters.

Investment focus

Apps, EdTech, Banking
Seed, Series A
Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lifeed — Lifeed (powered by Life Based Value) is a digital learning platform that unlocks life’s learning potential, transforming employees’ life transitions into professional growth. Companies that adopt Lifeed have access to a set of training and communications resources, a hub for sharing experiences and a dashboard with updated data on employees’experiences. By using a strength-based approach, the Life Based Learning method demonstrates how life events can be maximised to improve the corporate environment, empowering parents, caregivers and transitioners to fully engage and reveal their value within the company, reducing stress and helping them to excel in their careers.Since launching in 2015, Life Based Value has worked with over 80 firms and is being piloted in 23 countries and 218 cities across the USA, Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia. Over 20,000 people have participated and the results indicate that the program can improve soft skills by up to 35%.
Satispay — Satispay: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.
Linko Inc. — Linko Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California and has the main development studio in Berlin, Germany. Linko Inc. was founded by veteran entrepreneurs Mikko Alasaarela and Vesa Per

With many years of experience in business finance and international financial markets, he is a collaborator with LUISS EnLabs, director at LVenture Group and a partner with InnovActionLab. Since 2008, he has occupied himself with startups, has acted as co-founder, business angel, advisor and mentor, focusing on turnover, internationalization andcrowdsourcing. He has worked in New York, Rome and London, filling important positions at Lehman Brothers, Banco di Roma, UBS, Barclays Capital and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. He was co-founder and director of companies and associations, including Business Value, Agorà SGR, Atlas Capital (hedge funds) and Business Club Italia. He has led trainings at Banco di Roma, UBS and Barclays Capital on tools and capital markets and was co-editor of publications about markets, published by Euromoney Publications. He is an alumnus of the University of Bari.

Investment focus

SaaS, Legal, Mobile
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

NetLex — NetLex is a cloud-based legal practice management software and SaaS for the law firm and lawyers. It also offers legal information management products and services for commercial law firms and in-house lawyers. Currently developing and serving the Italian market, with approximately 250,000 lawyers. This allows the legal profession to finally reachproductivity and client servicing levels unthinkable before.Netlex was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Velletri, RM, Italy.

Valerio graduated in Business Management from the Bocconi University. From 2004 to 2008, he was a manager in Tamburi Investment Partners S.p.A., an independent investment-merchant bank. From 2008 to 2010, he was an associate in Ambienta SGR, an European leading company in management of private equity funds. In 2007, he founded Reale Gest, nowDoveVivo, where he is currently CEO.In 2018, he joined the Endeavor Italia network, an international organization that supports high potential businesses and promotes the economic growth of scale-ups giving access to global markets, talent development programs and capital.

Investment focus

Freelance, Web Design, Web Development
Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Cosmico — Cosmico is the place where we relate the projects of organizations with the skills of talents. Let's reinvent the job market together.

Joe Zadeh

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Personal Health
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Italy, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Ephos — Designing and manufacturing glass-based integrated photonic circuits that power the most advanced classical and quantum devices
Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).

Giordano Martinelli

Investment focus

Finance, Internet, Freelance
Seed, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Cosmico — Cosmico is the place where we relate the projects of organizations with the skills of talents. Let's reinvent the job market together.
Prestiamoci — Prestiamoci is the first community of loans between individuals born in Italy, allowing you to make profitable investment and to obtain loans with installments transparent.With Prestiamoci the providers invest and get Claimants, returning to its original role of the bank safe. Loans shall be paid by people to trustworthy people who want toachieve their life projects, grow their professional activity, better manage expenses and major purchases

Graduated in Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Milano University in 1980, he hold several managerial positions during the Eighties: he was Safety Analyst at the nuclear power plants of NIRA Ansaldo (1981-1982), he worked as a manager at SAE SADELMI (company belonging to the General Electric network), in Italy and in foreign countries suchasUS, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (1982-1987).In 1987 he moved to ABB and in 1993 he was Operations Manager at SOIMI. He later was appointed CEO at ABB Combustion Engineering Italy in 1997, while between 1998 and 2000 he worked as senior vice president of global sales and turnkey plants in the gas turbine division.In 2000 Francesco Starace joined Enel, appointed Energy Management of Enel Produzione, becoming Head of Business Power Division for the three-year period between 2002 and 2005. In that same year, he became Enel Italian Market Division Director.He later was in charge of the Renewable Energy Division of Enel and CEO of Enel Green Power (2008-2014).From 2014 to 2023, Francesco Starace worked as General Manger as well as CEO of Enel and the year after became part of the United Nations Global Compact.Honoured with several prizes, he received in 2010 Agici and Accenture’s the "Manager Utilities Prize 2010", in 2011 the "Chess and business strategies" prize, in 2013 Fondazione Energia’s "Sustainable Energy Prize 2013" and finally in 2016 he received Staffetta Quotidiana’s “Man of The Year” award.

Investment focus

Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing
Seed, Angel
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Atooma — Resonance AI is a key enabler to new generations of smart devices designed to:Listen to people's behavior across apps and devicesAct accordingly with the desired action in the right moment for a magic experienceAnalyze the patterns and get the most out of themIt provides a framework for cross-device interactions to brands and devicemanufacturers that needs their products to make the best of the Internet of Things layer potential. Most of the existing solutions for the Internet of Things provide strictly verticalized use cases, building ecosystems basically blind to any horizontal cross-device interaction. On the other hand, Atooma team is developing different SDKs for each of the main fragmented sectors of the IoT market, such as: automotive, home automation, wearables, and mobile devices. Also, as last step of integration within the platform, Atooma has developed a “suggestion engine” that makes use of the big data coming from user’s behavior monitoring, pro-actively suggesting them coherent and contextual use cases fitting their lifestyle, based on how they used the context-aware device.“Context awareness is not just a buzz word, we are building the fast track for the full participation in the contextual era for the internet of things players.” - Fabrizio Cialdea, CEO of Atooma

Riccardo holds a master degree - cum laude - in Management Engineering from University of Padova and an MBA from Colleges des Ingenieurs. He joined Rocket Internet after his MBA, working on the launch of some of the biggest e-commerces in South East Asia, like Lazada (recently sold to Alibaba). He’s passionate about developing new ideas andcreating new companies, with a strong hands-on approach to problem solving, processes and strategy. He created the algorithms that allows Lanieri to achieve a perfect fit for its customer more than 90% of the times.

Investment focus

Mobile, E-Commerce, Advertising
Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

TextYess — Increase your eCommerce Retention with a Frictionless Experience.

Entrepreneur and investor. After working in management consulting, in 2006 he created Wish Days, known above all for the Emozione3 gift boxes. In April 2016, he sold the company to the Smartbox group with a millionaire exit. In 2017, together with Cristina Pozzi, already a partner in Wish Days he founded Impactscool.He is advisor of dozens oftechnological initiatives and business angels in 150+ startups focusing on clean tech.He is the author of the book “Come far fallire una startup ed essere fellici” – How to make a startup fail and be happy, published by Bompiani, Bestseller in 2018.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Talyn Air — Inspired by two-stage rockets, our innovative eVTOL uses two flight vehicles to transform flight. Fixed-wing performance with VTOL capabilities.
BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration

Nico Rosberg is a sustainability entrepreneur, investor and 2016 Formula One World Champion.

Investment focus

Logistics, Information Technology, B2B
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Germany, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

ZeKju — ZeKju provides Messenger Communication for Supply Chains. Leading shippers and logistics service providers rely on ZeKju for efficient transport execution, yard communication and fleet management. With ZeKju, drivers use their favorite messenger (e.g. WhatsApp or Telegram) for everyday tasks while benefiting from features such as auto-translation.
Guided Energy — Guided Energy is the smart energy platform to power the next generation of renewable, electric fleets. Our platform makes it easier and cheaper to charge, operate and manage electric vehicles.
Infinite Machine — Infinite Machine is to create the world's most captivating non-auto vehicles. Infinite Machine initial product, the P1, is a revolutionary new personal electric vehicle that combines innovative performance and usefulness with an industrial-style look. In Infinite Machine's ideal post-car future, environment and people coexist together.

Marco Di Pietro former director of Yoox.

Investment focus

Mobile, E-Commerce, Advertising
Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

TextYess — Increase your eCommerce Retention with a Frictionless Experience.

Maurizio Donadelli

Investment focus

Analytics, Retail, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

Antlos — Yacht charter in over 800 sailing holidays destinations. Choose the best yacht to rent 22,000 certified sailing boats, catamarans, motorboats and gulets. You can hire a skippered or bareboat. Real time availability. Book your sailing week now!
Pathflow — Pathflow is real life Analytics. Through a camera based system we study how customers move and behave inside a location, we match this analysis with marketing and sales data and we generate dashboards with objective data and analysis.We are focusing on the retail market to provide businesses with a tool that will allow them to really knowtheir customers and their shopping habits.
Competitoor — Competitoor is the service for price intelligence. We track the price of your competitors and help you defining your price strategy.

Matthew Lunelli

Investment focus

EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.

Pietro Invernizzi - Founding Partner @ firedrop

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United Kingdom, Italy

Portfolio highlights

qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
Typedream — Use AI to help you plan, visualize, and build your website. Generate wireframes & copywriting for marketing websites in minutes with Typedream's AI Website Builder, then edit, customize, and publish your site with our powerful website editor
Dimension — Dimension is an all-in-one ecosystem for product development built for a better developer experience, enabling developers to plan, build, and deploy their project in one place.

Family, Friends & Angels

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Convertible Note
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Zakeke — Try out Zakeke's 3D Product Configurator & Customizer plugin for eCommerce. Let customers craft & buy their dream products. Try for free!

Duccio Vitali is a CEO at Alkemy digital_enabler.

Investment focus

Freelance, Web Design, Web Development
Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Cosmico — Cosmico is the place where we relate the projects of organizations with the skills of talents. Let's reinvent the job market together.

Francesco Zaccariello founder of eFarma.

Investment focus

Mobile, E-Commerce, Advertising
Pre-Seed
Italy, Germany

Portfolio highlights

TextYess — Increase your eCommerce Retention with a Frictionless Experience.
Hale — Hale is the digital solution supporting people with genito-pelvic pain, helping them live better with their condition. Download our app now!

Giorgio Chiellini

Investment focus

Gamification, Social Impact, Natural Resources
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Vedrai — Vedrai develops online platforms based on AL.
Treedom — Grow a tree and follow the story of the project of which it is a part.

I'm a committed and energetic person, fascinated by new knowledges and stimulated by new challenges. My area of interests are: Startups, Blockchain & ICO, Sharing economy, Sport, Food & Wines. Text me if you want to talk about the last DLT development as well as the best restaurant you have been in!

Investment focus

Apps, Blockchain, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Volvero — Drive the power of sharing with Volvero. Set up an account in minutes and start sharing vehicles with our community of users.

Attilio Mazzilli is Corporate Partner of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, a global law firm where he also serves as Head of the Italian Tech Group and Member of the International Technology Companies Group. He specializes in private equity and venture capital, with specific skills in both domestic and cross-border M&A transactions.Attilio Mazzilli graduated in Law from the University of Milan (dissertation on “The insurance contracts in private international law”). In 2003 he was admitted to the Italian Bar Association. In those years, he started working as Associate for “Pavia e Ansaldo” law firm in Milan. In 2006 he moved to Los Angeles, California and obtained a Master of Laws in Business&Corporate Law from the University of Southern California. The following year he came back to Milan to join “Chiomenti” law firm as Senior Associate. After this working experience, he moved to “Carnelutti” law firm, where he served as Partner and Head of International Development (2011-2015). Subsequently, his career continued at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, where he currently works as Corporate Partner and Head of the Italian Tech Group. He is also Member of the International Technology Companies Group. He focuses on M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions, while advising startups and venture capital firms in areas including financing, corporate law, M&A, and listings. Furthermore, he works as consultant for leading tech companies, supporting their founders at all stages of their life-cycle. Attilio Mazzilli was awarded “Lawyer of the Year for Venture Capital” in the 2020 Legalcommunity Awards. His commitment contributed to several awards received by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP: among these are “Law Firm of the Year 2021 for Venture Capital”, “Law Firm of the Year 2020 for M&A Small Cap” (BeBeez and PBV) and “Law Firm of the Year 2020 for Fintech” (TopLegal Industry Awards). During the first outbreak of COVID-19 in Italy, he collaborated with the Italian Ministry of Innovation, the Finance Commission and VC Hub in drafting urgent measures to provide financial support to tech and innovative companies in Italy. In the same period, his client Bending Spoons developed Immuni, the app chosen by the Italian Ministry of Health to track the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Over more than 22 years of professional experience, Attilio Mazzilli has taken part in many significant transactions and assisted companies the likes of Gruppo Intesa San Paolo, Cattolica Assicurazioni, Teko Telecom, Octo Telematics, and Prima Assicurazioni. He also assisted Banca Sella Holding and Fabrick (joint venture agreement with illimity Bank concerning Hype), Cerba HealthCare (acquisition of Lifebrain from Investindustrial) and Scalapay (Series B financing round led by Tencent and Series A financing round led by Tiger Global).

Investment focus

News, Education, E-Learning
Seed
Italy, France

Portfolio highlights

Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
Futura — Ace the GMAT with Futura and realize your educational dreams

Hugo was born and raised in Peru. In early 2000’s he got his Diploma in Industrial Engineering, starting off his career in the Logistics industry, where he worked on storage and distribution matters.In January 2012, Hugo moved to The Netherlands to pursue his MBA degree at Erasmus University, graduating in March 2013. Immediately after, Hugochanged career to Corporate Finance, where he specialized on Financial and Business Controlling during his tenures at technology and FMCG companies, including names like TomTom and The KraftHeinz Company.By mid-2018 his entrepreneurship journey started by founding Qullqi, an e-shop for women’s fashion accessories handcrafted in Peru. In addition, Hugo acted as interim Finance Manager for local companies in The Netherlands. During one assignment he moved to do home-office due to Covid-19 outbreak. In this new set-up, he found himself struggling to keep up with his personal productivity. Looking for a solution to allow him regain control over it as well as on his work-life balance, he learned that other professionals were dealing with a similar problem and there was no such a simple product in the market. This was the beginning of Silentus. Since then, Hugo’s been working on market and customer research and also setting up a team to grow the business and develop a great product.In February 2022, Hugo graduated from INSEAD Executive Master in Finance studies. During his free time he enjoys reading, primarily books around the topics of business, philosophy, and personal development; going to the gym; and watching football in local sports bars. He’s currently based in Amsterdam.

Investment focus

Retail, Sales Automation, Internet of Things
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Vado — Vado is a technology startup that connects third-party delivery platforms and vending machines making order reception, management and delivery to the riders completely automatic.We are neither a delivery provider nor a vending machine manufacturer - we bridge the gap between them.In order to help companies manage the delivery and take-awayoperations of any product (Alcohol, Sushi, Drugs, Ready Foods) more efficiently, we integrate their delivery apps (Glovo, Deliveroo, JustEat, UberEats) with distributors automatic that allow you to sell automatically 24/7.Automating the online ordering process helps our customers save time and money, so they can focus more on their core business and continue doing what they love most: making their customers happy.

Gianni Tagliapietra

Investment focus

Retail, Sales Automation, Internet of Things
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Vado — Vado is a technology startup that connects third-party delivery platforms and vending machines making order reception, management and delivery to the riders completely automatic.We are neither a delivery provider nor a vending machine manufacturer - we bridge the gap between them.In order to help companies manage the delivery and take-awayoperations of any product (Alcohol, Sushi, Drugs, Ready Foods) more efficiently, we integrate their delivery apps (Glovo, Deliveroo, JustEat, UberEats) with distributors automatic that allow you to sell automatically 24/7.Automating the online ordering process helps our customers save time and money, so they can focus more on their core business and continue doing what they love most: making their customers happy.

Enrico Drago is a Chief Executive Officer of PlayDigital at IGT.

Investment focus

EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

EPICODE — At EPICODE people learn to code and change their future forever. Study online and get hired by the most influential companies in the world!

Fabio Tomassini is the Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder, and General Manager of Risparmio Casa. He previously worked at GAROFALO HEALTH CARE as a Group Chief Financial Officer. Fabio Tomassini attended Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management.

Investment focus

Software, GreenTech, Information Services
Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

TAC S.r.l. — Entra nel futuro del networking con Smart Card personalizzate. Tecnologia NFC e QR. Porta il tuo Business con te.

Orange Palestre Torino is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Service Industry, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Keplero AI — Configura un Assistente AI che risponde ai tuoi clienti 24/7 sul tuo sito web, su WhatsApp, sui social media e alla tue email.

Vincenzo Colarocco is a partner at Studio Previti partner.

Investment focus

Apps, Sustainability
Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Collecto App — Collecto App objective is to democratize access to luxury items by sharing value and removing economic barriers. Collecto promotes financial and environmental sustainability by allowing consumers to share luxury goods while reducing environmental impact through more effective resource use.

Giorgio graduates in International Management at Bocconi University in 2015, starts working at BCG where he remains for two years looking after the technological transformation projects in banking and industrial sector. Decides to leave BCG and co-founds Casavo with the support from Picus Capital with an idea to develop a tech-enabled platformcapable of operating as a market maker in the residential property market, purchasing properties in 30 days and taking a risk of finding a final purchaser.

Investment focus

SaaS, Marketplace, Human Resources
Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, France

Portfolio highlights

Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
Beanstock — Beanstock is an online real estate marketplace for buying, managing and selling rental investment properties in Europe.

Massimiliano is co-founder and Managing Partner United Ventures . Previously at Altavista and founding Country manager of Google Italy. Founder of Annapurna Ventures, a new generation Technology Angel Fund. and As Consultant appointed by the Ministry of Economic Development, He has actively contributed to the drawing up of the report onventure capitalism in Italy, which then led to the DL Growth .He is currently Vice President of the Touring Club Italiano, Board Member of the American Chamber of Commerce and sits on the board of directors of AppsBuilder, Paperlit, 20 Lines and Cloud4WI.

Investment focus

Software, Food and Beverage, Cloud Computing
Series A, Seed, Series B
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

20lines — 20lines is a website and a mobile app where users write, read and share short stories.Their goal is to connect writers and readers around the concept of free short stories. They aim at becoming the “Instagram” for short stories. On 20lines everyone can easily share their stories, from the teenagers writing their daily journal for theirfriends to the important authors who want to share the preview of their next book with their audience.
AppsBuilder — App Maker by Appy Pie : Start your Free Trial Now. No code App Builder that lets you build native apps in minutes without writing a single line of code.
Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!

Gianmario Tondato Da Ruos

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Industrial
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

AzzurroDigitale — AzzurroDigitale accompagna le aziende manifatturiere in un percorso di digital transformation per migliorare e velocizzare i processi grazie alla tecnologia

Operator/Investor/Advisor. Led pre-IPO teams at: BigCommerce, Twitter, Salesforce.TRUSTLY - Senior Vice President of Engineering. Led a global team of 130+ to enable online banking payments as an alternative to credit & debit cards. CARTA - Vice President of Engineering responsible for its flagship product. Led a global team ofEngineers across San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, Rio, and Waterloo.APPDIRECT - Vice President of Engineering. Led a global team of 200+ across San Francisco, Montréal, Buenos Aires, and Pune.BIGCOMMERCE - Senior Vice President of Engineering. Scaled the Engineering team from 65 to 130 across San Francisco, Sydney, and Austin.TWITTER - Director of Engineering thru its IPO. Responsible for the Engineering Services teams: Trust & Safety, User Services, Content Management Tools, Platform Intelligence, Open Source Programs, Developer Productivity.SALESFORCE: Joined pre-IPO Salesforce when Engineering team was ~36 individuals. As Senior Director, he was responsible for a large portion of the Salesforce Platform. Ron also worked closely with the corporate development team (Salesforce Ventures) on mergers & acquisitions.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

MetaMap — Metamaps are customisable trust workflows that empower service providers to reach more customers.
Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
Momentum — Momentum is a workflow automation platform built for revenue teams. It replaces manual work with automation and decreases context switching between all your sales tools.

Mark Iuliano is a former footballer.

Investment focus

Apps, Sustainability
Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Collecto App — Collecto App objective is to democratize access to luxury items by sharing value and removing economic barriers. Collecto promotes financial and environmental sustainability by allowing consumers to share luxury goods while reducing environmental impact through more effective resource use.

Tech Entrepreneur and investor. The Financial Technology Report awarded him as one of the Top 25 CTOs of the world in the FinTech industry and he was selected as one of the Top 150 FinTech Leaders and Influencers in Italy. Founder and CEO of the Banking-as-a-Service startup BKN301 and founder of the VC firm SM Capital.Founder of Ventis, Fintechcompany sold to Iccrea Banca Group and co-founder of the multi-awarded SportTech startup Golee and the sustainable fashion startup KNIIT Milano. He founded Libertas, the first widely used news App in the Republic of San Marino and founded and later sold the e-commerce company Tippest. Early investor in SpaceX and Palantir (NYSE: PLTR) and Angel Investor of the Founder Institute of San Francisco, the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, based in Silicon Valley, through which he invested in startups like Realty Mogul, Andalin and MallIQ.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Italy, San Marino

Portfolio highlights

BKN301 — Scopri tutti i servizi dedicati a privati, aziende ed esercenti. Accedi all'area riservata.
qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
Ventis — Acquista online abbigliamento per uomo, donna e bambino, arredamento, beauty e gourmet su Ventis. Approfitta delle offerte con la garanzia di pagamenti comodi e sicuri.

Marco Corradino was the Co-Founder & CEO of Bravofly Group. Marco is a Jury member at Seedstars World Finals. Marco Corradino is another tech luminary who is helping make our international panel of jurors truly diverse and exceptional. Corradino is currently President at RedPill Srl. The Bravofly Rumbo Group traces its roots to2004 with the launch of the website Volagratis in Italy with a meager capital of 50,000 euros. Today it is a listed at the Swiss Stock Exchange and it operates websites in 15 languages and localized for over 25 countries. Despite a contraction in the industry back in 2009, Bravofly managed an astounding 60% increase in total turnover that year. In one of his statements, Corradino expressed an ultimate desire to be involved in a pioneering mission to Mars. He outlined an ambitious plan that include a documentary of the journey and the creation of a reality television show to help finance the affair. This depicts the sheer guts and vision that appear to underpin the entrepreneur’s approach to business. Marco's track record shows the outcome: the string of projects he initiated became wildly successful such as the Bravofly Rumbo Group, Redpill Srl, Homeltd.com, UnitedVentures, and Evolve Group, among others. At Seedstars World we believe that Corradino’s approach to business and experience as an entrepreneur and investor are critical in choosing the first ever global startup winner of the title “Seedstars World Best Startup”.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Information Technology
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Octorate — Octorate is the easy-to-use All-in-One Solution for Hospitality that supports you with the management of your Hotel, Vacation Rental and B&B.

Angelo Moratti studied at Columbia University in New York City. He is currently Vice-Chairman of Saras SpA, the largest refinery company in the Mediterranean. He is Vice-Chairman and member of the Executive Committee of Special Olympics International. Founder and former Chairman of Sarlux - a company that built and managed an electrical powerstation with capacity of 550 MW (1996/2002). He was member of the Board of Inter Milan Football Club from 1995 to 2013 and Board Member of Olimpia Milano basketball club sponsored by Armani Jeans (2003/2008). He was Chairman of Associazione Dino Ferrari, which focuses on research for neurological diseases (2000/2005). He has been involved in Venture Capital investing since 1996, when he founded telecom company ePlanet which went public in 2000.

Investment focus

iOS, Beauty, Mobile
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Applix — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
Skinlabo — Our mission is to make high-quality skincare accessible to everyone. We are disrupting the beauty industry with our unique value proposition (High-Quality Cosmetics for Everyone = High Quality Products, 100% made in Italy for less than 15 euro + High-Quality Service, with beauty consultants available 24/7) as well as a fully digital businessmodel (leveraging customer acquisition and retention rates well above the market benchmark).

Andrea has over 20 years of experience as a venture capital investor and entrepreneur. He has worked with Kiwi I, Cir Ventures, and Principia SGR, and invested in more than 40 companies – such as Yoox, Venere, Viamente – as well as being a founder of Vitaminic and Banzai. In 2013 he launched P101 SGR, of which he is Managing Partner, which todaymanages three investment funds (P101 – Programma 101; P102 – Programma 101 and Italia 500).

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
Italy, Spain, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bipi — Bipi is a car subscription startup offering consumers a hassle-free alternative to car ownership with fully-flexible, all-inclusive monthly subscriptions to quality new and used cars for a single, all-inclusive monthly payment and a digital-first, 100% online transaction process. Its platform lets users book cars, subscribe, swap, and cancel it atany point in time that enables customers to revolutionize the way they access cars.Bipi was co-founded by Hans Christ and Alejandro Vigaray in 2017 and it is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
iubenda — Make your sites & apps legally compliant across multiple languages and legislations (including the GDPR) with our lawyer-crafted, self-updating solutions.
Web3 Pro — The easiest onramp to Web3 for Enterprises with our leading white-label products. Engage consumers with NFT PRO. Establish your brand presence in digital worlds with GEER. Leverage the power of NFRs across your business with NAAS.

Luca Foresti is the CEO at Santagostino. Luca Foresti attended The University of Pisa.

Investment focus

SaaS, Human Resources
Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).

MIRIAM TENCA is a Amministratore delegato presso Panguaneta Plywood

Investment focus

Apps, Sustainability
Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Collecto App — Collecto App objective is to democratize access to luxury items by sharing value and removing economic barriers. Collecto promotes financial and environmental sustainability by allowing consumers to share luxury goods while reducing environmental impact through more effective resource use.

Pietro Cesati graduated in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University and obtained the CEMS Master's Degree in International Management in Stockholm.He worked in the banking & finance sector for 14 years, as an analyst and then manager in Reuters and Oliver Wyman and then moved to the bank in UniCredit and finally as Head ofRisk Management in BNL BNP Paribas.In Unicredit he dealt with the management of the credit risk of the mortgage portfolio and in the more than seven years in BNL BNP Paribas has expanded the scope of management to the entire loan portfolio to individuals and companies.Fed up with inertia and the inability to adapt to the banks, in 2015 he founded Soisy with the ambition to reinvent banking services around lending between people , with cutting-edge technological experience that is both pleasant and fast.In Soisy he also experiments with a new type of business organization suitable for listening and serving customers better: remote, agile, fluid and participatory.When he is not working he reads books of all kinds, even though since he founded Soisy most of them have talked about start-up, business model canvas and agile. He also loves to experiment with new sports and lately he practices tennis, skiing, surfing and yoga, without forgetting the table football at lunchtime with his colleagues.

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